[tor-bugs] #2848 [Tor bundles/installation]: Ship TBB-Firefox as a separately downloadable package

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#2848: Ship TBB-Firefox as a separately downloadable package
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 Reporter:  rransom                   |          Owner:  erinn
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new  
 Priority:  normal                    |      Milestone:       
Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |        Version:       
 Keywords:                            |         Parent:  #2844
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Comment(by rransom):

 Replying to [comment:1 mikeperry]:
 > I think we should take a step back and realize that what you're talking
 about is a pretty hard-core advanced use case, mostly intended for people
 who are already compiling and heavily tweaking stuff.
 >
 > Why can't you just run the TBB firefox with -P to get a fresh profile?
 What if we just added an command line option on TBB to point it to an
 alternate Firefox Profile directory somewhere on disk?
 >
 > Also, if we instead devote the limited resources of Erinn to more
 awesomer things like Thandy updates, shouldn't your TBB start auto-
 updating itself in-place and preserving its configs as it does so (if you
 so choose?) This also seems a better plan.

  * We need to build our customized Firefox anyway; putting out a separate
 Firefox-only tarball for expert users is easy.
  * We should build a separate Firefox-only tarball already anyway, so that
 we can just dump the Firefox binary into our TBB builds whenever we build
 a new TBB because Tor changed, rather than wasting time waiting for an
 unnecessary Firefox rebuild.
  * We need to start building a separate Firefox-only package anyway in
 order to deploy Thandy.
  * Contrary to popular belief, we still haven't finished designing and
 implementing Thandy.

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